Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC [closed]

Answer 1

The parse error here:

echo "Watching ".static::$favSport;

is because late static bindings were introduced in PHP v5.3. Your php version (<5.3) doesn't recognize static::$favSport.

There isn't any way I can think of to fix it for PHP older than 5.3, other than with object inheritance (which isn't really a fix per se since it doesn't have anything to do with static)...